>>>I think that sparse property should do this. Also, there is really another way to do this job:
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>>Sparse shows the boundcolumn, which is the surrogate key. I don't want to display the surrogate key.
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>>I want to change the key value, but display the discriptive value.
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>Would you like to get right-click menu way? I don't mean that first way doesn't work. It does, but troubleshooting might be painful, espacially on-online (also I don't have VFP on-hand right now :).

Give me the gist of the shortcut menu way? I am interested.